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I'm not saying that there haven't been gigantic applications written in dynamic languages. But the number of gigantic apps built on Ruby pales in comparison to
by viggity 16y ago
I'm not saying that there haven't been gigantic applications written in dynamic languages. But the number of gigantic apps built on Ruby pales in comparison to .Net or Java.
Having static typing helps prevent these massive apps from becoming an even larger cluster.
- cageface 16y agoI've heard a lot of hand waving arguments on both sides of this issue and at this point I'm not going to be persuaded by anything other than hard numbers. We need some way of quantifying the size and complexity of an application and then we need a statistically significant sampling of apps in both static and dynamic languages. At this point anything less than that is just conjecture. We can do the "ruby doesn't scale" dance back and forth all day but we're not really learning anything.